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Originally Posted by Kurona

I thought Transmutate was rumoured to be based on Paleotrex?

Maybe? I hadn't seen that, but also I hadn't gone majorly digging. Would make sense though.

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Originally Posted by Future Rider Prism

Transmutate never transformed, but that's not going to stop them from making one that does. My theory is that companies like Hasbro just do whatever they think is cool at the time. Or not, I don't know how these things work.

Someone looked at their plans for Kingdom, went "You know what this otherwise cartoon slavish line needs? Robot dinosaur skeleton transformers", and they went and did it just because they thought the idea alone was cool enough to get them more money, so you're probably more right than you think.